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OAK66F0022

1965-06-17 · KETTLEMANCITY, California, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N8254D has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BEECH B36TC, built 1991), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECHCRAFT J35 · N8254D
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
E
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise climb (DB)
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time
1,731 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
1,982
Age
53

Cause factors

  • 64/A/48 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/14 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/67 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0328. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0328.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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